Guild Wars 2

I believe a lot of players (including me) where kinda confused on the season 1 story of GW2, so I was wondering… would it really be a bad idea to release a novel about the main story from GW1 + Ghosts of Ascalon + Edge of Destiny + Sea of Sorrows + GW2 personal story (for example, with Trahearne as the narrator) + GW2 Season 1 story (with I don’t know, Braham as the narrator?) + … and so on.

I would personally love to read GW books, it’s quite a work but it might be cheaper and faster than remaking an entire season 1, and I would definitely buy it.
Though I’m not sure if there are many readers on the game.

Personal Story is told in-game. What is the point of releasing game’s main story in a book?

LS1 is probably going to be redone to the LS2 format, however this will happen after HoT. When? They didn’t say. Meanwhile http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_season_1 there is enough to keep up with the story.

The point is that the lore itself is interesting enough to be in a book for those who like the story but might not be gamers.

Raven.1524:

The point is that the lore itself is interesting enough to be in a book for those who like the story but might not be gamers.

Well.. this is a point of view I can’t agree with :>

Something needs to link the ps and ls2 together. Linking from your idea, perhaps a temp scavenger hunt that leads players to each major area where they can read journals and view cutscenes at each location.

Or the story journal have a temp short story written up in chapter form inside it

Or the whole thing could be written up as you suggest and downloaded for free from the site

Randulf.7614:

Something needs to link the ps and ls2 together. Linking from your idea, perhaps a temp scavenger hunt that leads players to each major area where they can read journals and view cutscenes at each location.

Or the story journal have a temp short story written up in chapter form inside it

Or the whole thing could be written up as you suggest and downloaded for free from the site

Yeah but if it’s something free Anet wouldn’t profit from it, and I believe getting people interested on the story outside the gaming community would be cool, I mean, from the main story with Zaithan, the season 1 and the season 2, plus now all the stuff from mordremoth in HoT… Give it a nice book cover, and I would buy the book If I didn’t play the game. And getting a little bit more profit to the game selling merchandise doesn’t really sound bad when you have almost all the script already written.

I was actually trying to focus more on the lore outside the gameplay without having to go to the wikis. (Yeah I’m kind of a bookworm)

Raven.1524:

The point is that the lore itself is interesting enough to be in a book for those who like the story but might not be gamers.

Trust me when I say game story to book adaptations NEVER work out.

The best you’ll get are different stories told in the game’s universe being told.

Besides, why include GoA/EoD/SoS when those are books?

If Anet does more books, I pray that they choose new stories to tell – maybe using characters from the games, but never retelling the game’s story.

Raven.1524:

Yeah but if it’s something free Anet wouldn’t profit from it, and I believe getting people interested on the story outside the gaming community would be cool, I mean, from the main story with Zaithan, the season 1 and the season 2, plus now all the stuff from mordremoth in HoT… Give it a nice book cover, and I would buy the book If I didn’t play the game. And getting a little bit more profit to the game selling merchandise doesn’t really sound bad when you have almost all the script already written.

People not interested in games will not buy game-based novels except in very rare situations. Besides, novels already exist with unique stories (three, specifically).

As for ’doesn’t profit Anet’ – Anet’s already epressed the desire to make the Living World Season 1 permanent in Season 2’s format. They’ve also recently reworked the latter half of the Personal Story for free – no profit to them. Plus, they can get a profit from Season 1 – the same way they have for Season 2. They can use the historical achievements to determine if you logged on during those releases and give you related episodes for free when you log on, and the rest for purchase – thus any new player has to buy S1 to play it and get anything from it.

Raven.1524:

I was actually trying to focus more on the lore outside the gameplay without having to go to the wikis. (Yeah I’m kind of a bookworm)

Kind of pointless, truth be told, for a game’s story.

Well, I guess I’ve gotta conform with Jeff Grubb’s books then. Thanks for the answers